One reason we like Trump for POTUS

[EdwinAMartin]

“There was no evidence that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon,” says Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. His comment echoed those of other experts after the war’s start, as well as statements from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi at that time and in 2025 and last year’s “threat assessment” report by U.S. intelligence agencies.

According to an IAEA estimate, as of June 2025, Iran possessed 441 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, where the percentage refers to the share of the isotope uranium 235 (U 235) found in the material. That would be enough for 10 nuclear weapons if the material could be enriched further to full 90 percent weapons-grade concentrations, according to the IAEA. That further enrichment would take a matter of weeks in a fully functioning Iranian nuclear complex, perhaps explaining the time line within Trump’s declaration.

That step alone doesn’t equal a bomb, however. And Iran’s main enrichment capabilities were “completely and totally obliterated,” according to Trump himself in June, after the U.S. bombed three underground Iranian facilities. The administration’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff nonetheless claimed on March 3, after the start of the current war, that Iran had the capability to make 11 nuclear bombs. Trump administration officials reportedly failed to include nuclear technical experts in their negotiation teams with Iran prior to the war, adding to the uncertainty. If Iran really had rebuilt these facilities, that might have led—over months and not weeks—to the nation resuming its uranium enrichment, Lewis says. “But this is all ‘if,’ ‘maybe’ and ‘later,’” he adds.

I'm always happy to disabuse you of the horseshit that's been shoveled in your direction by trump and conservative media.

lol some Peace At Any Price left wing front peddling US isolationism. whoopty do, a skool for future UN cess pool 'experts'. Oh, wait, it's just some hacks working out of an abandoned apt. complex and going broke, because nobody respects it and it's failing.

The struggling Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey to shut down by June 2027.


By the end of June 2027, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey will be no more, and its last resident graduate students will have completed their programs.

Middlebury President Ian Baucom announced the news on Thursday, Aug. 28 following an afternoon meeting with MIIS faculty and staff at the Irvine Auditorium on campus, where dozens filed out the doors just after 3pm, with most quietly walking off down the sidewalk.

In his statement, Baucom – who also issued a video address – begins, “I write today with difficult news.” He then outlines the brass tacks of what the Middlebury board decided on Aug. 27, at Baucom’s recommendation: Residential graduate degree programs at MIIS will be concluded by June 2027, along with online graduate programs in International Education and TESOL. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, which is based in Monterey but doesn’t offer degrees, will remain, while Baucom stated that Middlebury’s summer programs currently offered in Monterey – School of the Environment, Bread Loaf School of English’s short program, and the English Language School – will remain at least through 2026.

 

[berg80]

lol some Peace At Any Price left wing front peddling US isolationism. whoopty do, a skool for future UN cess pool 'experts'. Oh, wait, it's just some hacks working out of an abandoned apt. complex and going broke, because nobody respects it and it's failing.

That's a curious screed to write in response to the scientific community's assessment, based on science..........not a gut feeling.........., that Iran's capacity to built a nuclear bomb wasn't two weeks away.

 

[jacksonlamb]

you havent been here long to now much about the people here...no he doesnt know...

Sure, he does. It is so obvious.

 

[markef]

Do you have a point? Or are you just trying to make out Trump isn't a liar?

I mean, we could go through the millions of lies one at a time if you like.

Trump has not told millions of lies but if all democrat narratives over the last decade are added up one million is not too far fetched an estimated sum.

 

[markef]

If you're going to say Kamala is "dumb", you might want to back it up. Rather than just posting childish nonsense. Doesn't make you look smart, you know?

Kamala might not be as stupid as some but her inability to consistently communicate in logical meaningful sentences made her look dumb.

 

[markef]

Kamala was qualified to replace Monica Lewisky perhaps!

True. Kamala seemed far more experienced than Monica.

 

[markef]

ahhh. . . so you think it is the job of the US military and US taxpayer to bring justice across the entire planet huh?

Isolationism does not keep Americans safe from foreign rogues and dictators. Remember 9/11.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

That's a curious screed to write in response to the scientific community's assessment, based on science..........not a gut feeling.........., that Iran's capacity to built a nuclear bomb wasn't two weeks away.

We should offer Iran and entire month or so cuz we're a fair people, and just want to get along with terror groups